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Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (IREB) – CPRE Foundation Level Examination

The CPRE Foundation Level (IREB) is an entry-level, internationally recognized certification for professionals in Requirements Engineering (RE), teaching core concepts like eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing requirements for better project quality and reduced risk, applicable across industries and technologies. It demonstrates foundational skills for business analysts, developers, project managers, and others, enabling them to understand RE fundamentals and progress to advanced CPRE levels.

Equip the participants with an independent and internationally recognized qualification
CPRE certification helps in being independent of specific problem domain and solution technologies along with being language independent
The CPRE Foundation Level covers the fundamentals of the Requirements Engineering domain, methodology and available techniques. There are no prerequisites to apply for it.

Professionals working with Requirements Engineering
Business Analysts, System Analysts, Software Engineers, Developers.
Project Managers, Team Leaders, Quality Managers.
Anyone involved in developing digital or physical solutions who works with requirements.

Introduction and Overview of Requirements Engineering
Fundamental Principles of Requirements Engineering
Work Products and Documentation Practices
Practices for Requirements Elaboration
Process and Working Structure
Management Practices for Requirements
Tool Support

CPRE Foundation Level - Syllabus

The Foundation Level encompasses the elicitation of requirements with appropriate documentation, requirements verification and validation as well as their management throughout the end-to-end product life-cycle. It is worthwhile to the advanced beginner in Requirements Engineering to achieve foundation level certificate in requirements engineering as it provides the core knowledge of this topic. Successfully clearing the CPRE examinations will equip the participants with an independent and internationally recognized qualification. CPRE certification helps in being independent of specific problem domain and solution technologies along with being language independent.

What it Covers:

Fundamentals: Basic principles, activities, and work products in RE.
Core Disciplines: Techniques for eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing requirements.
Process & Tools: Applying RE processes to projects and using relevant tools.
Notations: Familiarity with common requirement notations.

A person with a CPRE FL certificate

is familiar with the terminology of Requirements Engineering/Business Analysis and Requirements Management,
understands the basic techniques and methods of Requirements Engineering and their application,
is familiar with the most established notations for requirements.

International Recognition: A globally accepted proof of RE expertise.

Career Advancement: Opens doors to advanced CPRE levels (Practitioner, Specialist).

Project Success: Improves project quality by ensuring clear, well-defined requirements.

Versatility: Skills are independent of specific domains or technologies.

This is an online proctored examination.

The indication of surnames, first names, place of birth and date of birth is a prerequisite for certification.

Examination supervision of the TÜV SÜD Examination Institute.

Live Proctoring

The examination is monitored online in real time by a proctor. Participants can contact the online examination supervisor via the chat function. The instructions of the online examination supervisor must be followed.

Requirements for Live Proctoring Examination:

Students need to connect to the examination session from an internet accessible location.
Webcam and Microphone are REQUIRED.
The examination venue must be a self-contained private room or office.
When prompted by the online exam proctor, the complete work environment/room must be shown using the camera.
There must be no other people in the room.
No other materials are allowed in the vicinity of the PC/laptop other than permitted resources.
No texts on the walls or desk.
Quiet surroundings and no music, television or other sources of noise.
No other computers or devices in the room are to be switched on.
The room must be sufficiently lit (equivalent to daylight).
Participants are not permitted to create or distribute transcripts of the examination contents (electronically and/or manually).

The participant undertakes to meet these requirements in full. Failure or refusal to meet these requirements may cause the certification body to issue a result of attempted cheating, deception or disqualify the participant when they review the examination.

Examples:

Participant makes/receives a telephone call during the examination.
Another person appears in the room.
During the examination, the browser displaying the examination is left and answers are researched online despite this being prohibited by the examination regulations (closed book).
Documents/notes are positioned on or around the laptop/monitor that enable the participant to cheat.

In the event of technical problems with the laptop/PC (e.g. PC crashes during the examination) or the Internet connection is disrupted, the examination is deemed terminated and must be repeated. Should this happen, please get in touch with us.

Every examination from TÜV SÜD Academy has its own examination regulations that describe the permitted resources, for instances. There may be supplementary regulations for online examinations. The examination regulation/s and any supplementary regulations shall apply.

Multiple-choice examination consisting of 45 questions.
Duration: 75 mins.
To pass the exam you have to score at least 70.00 percent of the total points.
Mode: Electronic and pen paper based.
Proctored examination.
During the examination no aids (training documents, books, telephone, etc.) except for language dictionaries are permitted. Sheets of paper used for scribbling may not be taken out of the room.
If the examination takes place in a language that is not the native language of the participant, an extension of the examination can be requested. The duration of the exam may be extended as follows:
- Foundation Level: from 75 minutes to 90 minutes

CPRE Foundation Level - Examination regulations

What is a proctored exam?

A proctored exam is an assessment supervised by a proctor or test monitor.

What is an online proctored exam?

An online proctored exam is a timed assessment via an online platform in which the candidates’ activity, webcam video, and audio are monitored. In our case, there is a human proctor that supervises the exam taking place via a webcam to ensure the authenticity of the test taker and prevents them from cheating.

What is a proctor?

A proctor is simply an invigilator whose job is to overlook test takers during examinations for the main purpose of ensuring that they don’t cheat. This is done with the help of a real-time test proctor present online during the duration of the assessment via webcam surveillance.

What is proctoring?

Also known as invigilation, proctoring is the act of supervising candidates during an examination. The purpose of this is to ensure that the exam process is fair and equal for all candidates. When the stakes are high, it’s crucial to guard against cheating, impersonating a candidate, or copying questions to share with others.

How do proctored online exams work?

Online proctored exams are timed exams that are taken online while the proctor monitors the test takers’ computer browser activity, webcam video, and audio during the exam.

But before the test begins, the candidate is required to fill in their details like name, date of birth, age, and gender to ensure their authenticity. The test taker is expected to show ID proof for facial recognition. In the same step, the microphone and webcam are tested to avoid any errors during the assessment.

Once the ID verification has taken place, checks are conducted on the candidates’ exam environments to prevent any cheating from taking place.

The rules of the online proctored exam are explained to the candidates. This typically includes things like no speaking, referring to notes, using other software on a computer or copying down exam content to share with others. Once that is done, then the real assessment can begin.

During the assessment, the candidates are monitored to ensure that they follow the rules.

Each of these steps is designed to ensure that the assessment is completely fair and prevent any test fraud from taking place.

The proctor will authenticate students’ IDs, keep track of time, and watch students to make sure that they are following test guidelines and instructions.

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